Sorry, I gave a file reference for that but should have realized the reader might not be ain a place convenient to look at their file. Here is a collection of some lines from one of the files: [Desktop Entry] Name[id]=Editor Konfigurasi Comment[be]=Наўпрост рэдагуе ўсю базу даньняў наладак Type=Application Name[en_GB]=Configuration Editor Name[zh_TW]=組態編輯器 Comment[en_CA]=Directly edit your entire configuration database The files have mostly non-english stuff and I just want to see them more readably. I am sitting here with my new copy of Linux in a Nutshell but I have not used this stuff in maybe 15 years. Thanks for the help! On 6/10/06, Darrin Chandler wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 01:28:57PM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: > > There are files that seem to contain a lot of lines seemingly used to > > display information suitable for many locales. One example is > > ~/.local/share/applications/gconf-editor.desktop. These would be a lot > > easier to explore if I could look at them and not see the lines for > locales > > other than my language. > > > > My thought was to do a cat foofile | grep regexpl where regexpl would > pass > > all lines having no [*] term unless it were [en*]. Unfortunately, I > have > > forgotten much of what I once knew about regular expressions. I know I > > want > > to relearn, but not today. A little help please? > > Either a better description of the line format or a few sample lines > would help a lot. > > -- > Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group > dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ > http://www.stilyagin.com/ | > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- "The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." Patrick Henry quote